Specialization in Concept Art: Creative design of characters and scenarios

Overview

“In this lesson, I will model how to apply the fundamentals of light to add realism to the character design. The topics I will cover are ambient occlusion, direct light, wrapping shadows, material indication, and specular highlights.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Lighting 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Concept Art: Creative design of characters and scenarios. Learn to create immersive worlds and expressive characters through the concept art, with an approach to narration, environments and characters design..

Partial transcription of the video

“ Lighting In this lesson, we'll be adding our understanding of lighting to our design and realism to our character. The topics I'll cover are ambient occlusion, direct light, wrapping shadows, material indication, and specular highlights. Let's get started. The first thing I'll add is our ambient occlusion. I'll make a new folder here and call it "lighting." I'll add a mask for our character on this folder and start putting in our adjustment layers here. This one will be our ambient occlusion. I'll make this red, and set it to Multiply. I'll make this a warm colour and bring down the darkn...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Concept Art: Creative design of characters and scenarios

• Level: Beginner
• 169 students
• 6 units
• 110 lessons (1d 0h 21m)
• 52 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  3D, 3D Modeling, Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting